Judy Mikovits is not a credible source on COVID-19

Ostensibly well-adjusted adults, including some of my long acquaintance, are losing their damned minds over a Judy Mikovits interview that dropped this week.

I’m not going to embed the video, because no link to it has been good for 24 hours in a row, that I can see. YouTube keeps taking it down. (If you want to see it, you should be able to download it here.) It’s a 26-minute video, mostly an interview with Mikovits, in which she discusses any number of crackpot conspiracy theories (on COVID-19 and other things) as if they are reality.

(It’s skillfully made, with some budget, which surely contributes to its persuasiveness.)

But it’s wildly out of step with what so many others advise and report, with most of her claims relying solely on her say-so.

That’s not how human nature works, and it’s the primary glaring fault in most conspiracy theories. So many people would have to be complicit, with essentially no exceptions, for anything to be the way she says.

And large groups of people suck at being complicit.

William of Ockham had some relevant wisdom as well.

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